Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the members of the family , along with Mrs Prynn , the head groom and Sir Gregory 's personal manservant , were called to attend at a private meeting in the refectory . |
| 2 | His formative years were spent living at a small terraced house in , a house which still remains in use today . |
| 3 | Then they were asked to look at a young boy . |
| 4 | Britain was in the grip of a severe recession and by 1875 the Britannia Works were forced to close at an enormous loss which Albert Hill could not sustain . |
| 5 | THE Dallas Cowboys were left raging at a refereeing decision which could eventually cost them a place in the Super Bowl . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's Fergie , ’ someone said , and within seconds Charles and Diana were left staring at an empty patch of snow where a moment before dozens of photographers had been elbowing one another for the best position . |
| 7 | However , from July 1919 the stripes were changed to run at a 45° angle from left to right . |
| 8 | This study was designed to look at an array of possible influences on diabetic control in a group of diabetic patients in the community in order to identify which factors influenced glycaemic control and to quantify the relative contribution of each . |
| 9 | Dunvegan had a well ; the water , Johnson found upon enquiry , was not brackish but hard ; Rorie More 's drinking-horn held two quarts of liquor , ‘ which the heir of Macleod was expected to swallow at a draught … before he was permitted to bear arms , or could claim a seat among the men ’ . |
| 10 | Molly Scrutton was invited to teach at a KFA Training Course in Thorpe and she has taught at our own Rallies in Kent and Essex earlier in the year . |
| 11 | In August 1988 , Dai Qing was invited to speak at a banquet in Hong Kong held in honour of Liu Binyan , the most famous ‘ investigative reporter ’ of the People 's Daily , the official organ of the Chinese Communist Party . |
| 12 | She was found wandering at a golf course , near Stockport , Cheshire , on Monday . |
| 13 | One of the large sprocket attaching bolts was found fractured at a position closely corresponding with the top surface of the sprocket ( i.e. in the lower face of the plain washer ) . |
| 14 | Mrs Lynch of Eleanor Street , Wigan , went to the local station at Ashton-in-Makerfield after her brother Stephen Wilkinson , 38 , was found hanged at a children 's play area . |
| 15 | A MAN was found hanged at a city centre playground yesterday . |
| 16 | She was compelled to stop at a particular stall , where a woman was selling crystals . |
| 17 | Maggie was left staring at a closed door , lost for words . |
| 18 | Unbelievably , M4 was allowed to rise at a rate of 17.7 per cent in the most recent six-month period . |
| 19 | In other words , only one gene was allowed to mutate at a time , and that gene was allowed to change its " value " only by +1 or -1 . |
| 20 | Inflation was estimated to increase at an annual rate of 4.5 per cent for 1990 , according to the OECD World Economic Outlook . |
| 21 | It grew harder later , when she was sent to study at a special school for the blind — the other kids taunted her because , by then , she was also going deaf . |